One of Britain's highest profile landlords is to be sentenced on December 11 - and she must show the court details of the bank accounts and assets...

A London property firm must repay no less than £60,000 in rent after a council obtained a Rent Repayment Order against it.  Finchley Properties Ltd must hand...

A growing number of tenants say they want to stay put in their rented home even if the landlord sells up. A survey of 600 tenants conducted...

The head of a buy to let specialist mortgage broker insists the sector remains a solid investment despite the slew of recent regulation and fiscal challenges.  Andrew...

Luton landlord Mervyn Kupshik has been ordered to pay nearly £30,000 to the Local council - and if he doesn’t do it in three months he...

Shelter is campaigning for the outlawing if default fees levied on tenants by agents in Wales. While the campaigning group welcomes the Renting Homes (Fees etc) (Wales) Bill currently...

A former lettings agent in Plymouth has finally admitted taking hundreds of thousands of pounds from tenants and landlords - the total is thought to be...

The latest data from Agency Express shows what the company calls “buoyant figures” for the UK lettings market in October.  Following a three month slump, national month...

Local press reports say that one of the country’s most controversial buy to let licensing schemes has seen thousands of applications rejected for bureaucratic reasons.  The scheme...

A Manchester lettings agency has teamed up with a bank to fund entry into the Build To Rent management sector.  Two new directors from Gatehouse Bank will...

The take up of new rental tenancies across prime central London decreased by no less than 12.7 per cent in the third quarter of this year...

A rental management firm has launched a new home-sharing platform which it says is aimed at everyone wanting a place to stay whether it’s for a...

A controversial review website which says it can be used to identify “good (and bad) letting agents” has won the backing of a university’s student body.  Marks...

The average rent in the UK is now £928 per calendar month, up by 2.1 per cent on the same time last year, according to HomeLet. When...

Darlington lettings agency My Property Box has signed a new deal to let properties in the area on behalf of developer Bussey & Armstrong. My Property Box...

Manchester’s rental market is rising higher than in any other UK city according to property consultancy Cushman & Wakefield.  Rents were up by 10 per cent in...

A call has been made for the government to review the section 8 possession process as part of its call for evidence and consultation on the...

The JLL lettings agency has launched a ‘virtual property manager’ for a small number of Build To Rent tenants, claiming it is the first of its...

The private rental sector is not fit for purpose when it comes to housing vulnerable tenants, claims debt charity StepChange which has called for a government...

A new study has revealed that the average Briton rents four years longer than they initially planned to, because of stubbornly-high house prices. However, for those who can...

The online agency Home Made, which says it’s London’s only premium online platform for the rental sector, has raised a further £2 million in funding.  The digital...

The government is consulting on the proposal for a specialist Housing Court which, if it goes ahead, would be a “single path of redress for both...

The chief executive of a specialist buy to let mortgage broker is warning that mortgages for landlords are likely to become more expensive in the near...

The number of lettings listings in prime central London fell 18 per cent in the year to September, says Knight Frank. The agency has used Rightmove data...

So-called ‘real rents’ - those adjusted for inflation - have fallen by 2.2 per cent since October 2008.   This means that the average cost of living has...

A lettings agency in Oxford has diversified into marketing car parking spaces as well as apartments and houses. Scottfraser Summertown has told the Oxford Mail newspaper that...

The Leaders Romans Group has revealed its acquisition of yet another independent agency - Property Concept. Based in Clifton, Bristol, Property Concept is a single branch residential letting...

Somerset agency Mark Templer Residential has acquired independent company Wrington Vale Lettings. Husband and wife team John and Vanessa Webb with business partner Karen Morgan founded Wrington...

A lettings trade body has welcomed extra government funding for English councils to clamp down on criminal landlords. But the Residential Landlords Association has said the extra...

The government has unveiled the spectre of a ‘global immigration system’ to be introduced from the end of 2020 - but with no details as to...

A survey by specialist lender Landbay reveals that tenants outside of London typically spend 33 per cent of their monthly pay, before tax, on rent -...

An online toolkit for tenants on how to best navigate the rental system has been launched by Shelter Scotland with funding from the sister charity of a...

Local authorities across the UK are to get another £2m to crack down on rogue operators in the buy to let sector.  The new funding was announced...

It should perhaps come as no surprise that this week’s tightening up of the energy efficiency regulations for the private rental sector has been backed by...

One of the country’s leading buy to let experts has given her reasoning behind the surge in the number of people who rent. Part of it is...

The LonRes data consultancy says the lettings market in prime areas of the capital is now characterised by increasing rents and competition amongst tenants for properties. LonRes...

The power held by tenants is growing across the UK, as new research indicates 61 per cent of buy to let investors are willing to postpone...

A council in the north of England has issued its first-ever Civil Penalty Notice on a landlord - and it involved a £20,000 fine. The landlord, from...

The countryside lettings sector will be badly hit by new energy efficiency rules being introduced by the government next year. That’s the view of the rural pressure...

Figures drawn up for the London region of the GMB union claim that across the capital’s 33 boroughs private rents have risen an average 21.7 per...

The Scottish private lettings sector is on the march again with the latest index suggesting a 2.2 per cent annual rise, taking the typical rent to...

A former City marketing executive is suing a lettings agency for £1.4m in a row over alleged harassment in 2010. Agent Caroline Arundell - who died in...

Buy to let investors in England and Wales who own particularly cold homes are being targeted by new regulations. Since April this year, landlords who own some...

The Labour MP who chairs the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee in the House of Commons is pressing the government to explain what it is...

The industry’s first property management franchise scheme, SDL Property Partners, has been given a presentation on how members could be key at identifying and stopping domestic...

An analysis of 30,000 tenancies by PropTech firm Goodlord suggests that the upcoming ban on tenants’ fees could impact most on the poorest areas of the...

A property investment company operating a Ponzi scheme based on claims of capital appreciation and rental income has been shut down by the High Court. It is...

Two lettings agencies have been expelled from The Property Ombudsman scheme for failing to pay awards. One is OJ Residentials Limited trading as Oscar Jones Residential (OJR),...

The Residential Landlords Association is threatening a council with a judicial review because of unresolved concerns over the authority’s selective licensing plans. Great Yarmouth council is proposing...

Some broadly good news to end the week - rents are predicted to grow 13.7 per cent in the next five years according to a forecast...